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Nationalism and the Power of the Catholic Church in Poland*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Samuel P. Oliner
Samuel P. Oliner*
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California State University, Humboldt, CA
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The determination with which Communism has attacked religious institutions and theology has resulted in considerable loss of power for the Church in virtually all of the satellite countries. There appears to be one notable exception to this phenomenon, namely, the Polish Church.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Spring 1980 , pp. 53 - 66
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Copyright © 1980 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe 

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